Vorkosigan Saga Characters by Quote

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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present--they are real.

Let's see what happens. (character's catchphrase)

Every day is a gift. Me, I rip open the package and wolf it down on the spot.

I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously.

People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.

Actual combat... is a lot stupider than I'd imagined. If two groups can cooperate to the incredible extent it takes to meet in battle, why not put in a tenth that effort to talk?

Lately, I have come to believe that the principal difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Integrity is a disease, and you can only catch it from someone who has it.